Henry Peirson Harland | |
Constituency Mp: | Belfast East |
Term Start: | 8 February 1940 |
Term End: | 15 June 1945 |
Predecessor: | Herbert Dixon |
Successor: | Thomas Loftus Cole |
Birth Date: | 1 September 1876 |
Birth Place: | Uxbridge, England |
Death Place: | Aldenham, England |
Nationality: | British |
Party: | Ulster Unionist Party |
Henry Peirson Harland (1 September 1876 – 11 August 1945) was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland.
Born in Uxbridge, Harland studied at Rugby School before being appointed as a director or Harland and Wolff, and of Short and Harland. He worked as an engineer worldwide before winning the Belfast East by-election in 1940 for the Ulster Unionist Party. Despite holding a seat in Northern Ireland, he lived in Aldenham, Hertfordshire. He died shortly before the 1945 general election.[1]